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File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to reveal previously secret [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to reveal previously secret [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Herbert John Ryser (d. July 12, 1985) was a professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | |||
||1998 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (b. 1925) | ||1998 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (b. 1925) | ||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1967: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses Gnomon algorithm to reveal previously secret crimes against mathematical constants.
